A. J. Jacobs

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A.J. Jacobs is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Know-It-All,The Year of Living Biblically, and The Guinea Pig Diaries. He is the editor at large of Esquire magazine, a contributor to NPR, and has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Entertainment Weekly. He lives in New York City with his wife and kids. Visit him at AJJacobs.com.
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A.J. Jacobs is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Know-It-All,The Year of Living Biblically, and The Guinea Pig Diaries. He is the editor at large of Esquire magazine, a contributor to NPR, and has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Entertainment Weekly. He lives in New York City with his wife and kids. Visit him at AJJacobs.com.

Photograph by Michael Cogliantry

Photograph by Michael Cogliantry

A. J. Jacobs

A.J. Jacobs is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Know-It-All,The Year of Living Biblically, and The Guinea Pig Diaries. He is the editor at large of Esquire magazine, a contributor to NPR, and has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Entertainment Weekly. He lives in New York City with his wife and kids. Visit him at AJJacobs.com.
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A.J. Jacobs is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Know-It-All,The Year of Living Biblically, and The Guinea Pig Diaries. He is the editor at large of Esquire magazine, a contributor to NPR, and has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Entertainment Weekly. He lives in New York City with his wife and kids. Visit him at AJJacobs.com.

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Conversation with A.J. Jacobs

A Conversation with A.J. JacbosAuthor of The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible

Q: Which was harder: reading the encyclopedia for the KNOW-IT-ALL, or living biblically for THE YEAR OF LIVING BIBLICALLY? AJ: Living biblically, hands down. It was certainly a challenge to read all the 44 million words of the encyclopedia (the 21 pages on Portuguese literature come to mind). But the Bible project...